Veneto, Campania and Puglia will vote today and tomorrow for the 2025 regional elections. Citizens are called upon to elect the presidents of the councils and regional councils of the three regions. Voting is open from 07.00 to 23.00 today, Sunday 23 November 2025, and tomorrow, Monday 24 November, 07.00 to 15.00.
At the same time, a round of extraordinary elections will also be held in the cities of the ordinary law areas that were dissolved due to the infiltration and conditioning of mafia types: Monteforte Irpino (Avellino), Caivano (Naples), Acquaro and Capistrano (Vibo Valentia) were involved.
Nearly 12 million citizens voted. Here he is who the candidates are and how voting worksregion by region.
Venice
In the Venice 4,296,562 voters were called to the polls to elect a new governor and 49 regional council members, selected from 845 candidates spread across 16 lists. The presidential candidates are:
Alberto Stefani for the centre-right (Lega, Fdi, Fi, Udc, Noi Moderati, Liga Veneta Repubblica);
Giovanni Manildo for broad fields (Pd, M5s, Avs, Il Veneto che desi, Rete delle Civiche Progressive, +Europa, Volt Italia, Psi, Movimento Socialista Liberale);
Fabio Bui to Popolari to Veneto;
Marco Rizzo for Sovereign People’s Democracy;
Riccardo Szumski for the Resist list.
Compared with 2020, there were 140 thousand more voters: of whom there were more than 252 thousand young people who voted for the first time in the region and 22 thousand new voters aged 18 years. There are seven electoral districts, according to provinces: Treviso is the most populous, followed by Padua, Vicenza, Verona, Venice, Belluno and Rovigo.
The unique thing is: there are 524 thousand Venetians registered with AIRE, but in the regional elections they can only vote by returning to Italy.
campaign
In Campania, around 5 million citizens voted to elect Vincenzo De Luca’s successor and 50 regional council members. There are 5825 sections, half of which are in Naples. The presidential candidates are:
Roberto Fico for center-left, supported by 8 lists;
Edmondo Cirielli for the center-right, supported by 8 lists;
Nicola Campanile For – For society and community
Giuliano Granato from the popular Campania
Carlo Arnese People Power
Stefano Bandecchi from Dimensione Bandecchi
The threshold is 2.5% for all lists, which would be enough to assign one of 50 seats. Seats are distributed as follows: 27 Napoli, 9 Salerno, 8 Caserta, 4 Avellino, 2 Benevento.
Puglia
In the Puglia more than 3.5 million voters were called to elect a new president after Michele Emiliano’s ten-year mandate. There are 4,032 seats distributed in 258 cities. The presidential candidates are:
It’s from Donnofor peace-loving and popular Puglia (with one list uniting the Italian Communist Party, Potere al Popolo, Socialist Risorgimento);
Sabino Mangano for the Civic Alliance of Puglia, with one list uniting the Marziani movement and Next Italia;
Antonio Decarocandidates from the Progressive Party with six lists: Democratic Party, 5 Star Movement, Green Left Alliance, President Decaro, For President of Puglia – Decaro, Avanti Popolari with Decaro (where there is also PSI who submitted several candidacies in Salento);
Luigi Lobuono center-right coalition candidates with five lists: Fratelli d’Italia, Forza Italia, Lega (together with representatives of the UDC, Nuovo Psi and Puglia Popolare), Noi Moderati-Civici per Lobuono, La Puglia con Noi (only in the constituencies of Bat, Lecce, Taranto).
There are six electoral districts: Foggia, BAT, Taranto, Brindisi, Lecce and the metropolitan area of Bari. In Puglia, separate voting between the list and presidential candidates is allowed. Fifty seats are up for grabs on the Regional Council plus an elected president.
The threshold is 4% for coalition lists, 8% for single lists. There is a maximum of two preferences that voters can express, but only if they support candidates of different genders who are part of the same list. If candidates of the same gender or from different lists are named, the vote is cancelled.
